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[quote=Anonymous]HS teacher here. There is an internal to MCPS document "Secondary Grading and Reporting Guidance 2022-23" that is this year's detailed guidance regarding grading and reporting. There has always been a guiding document with specifics about implementation. Prior to the pandemic, there was more teacher flexibility about several aspects. During the past two years, MCPS has given more specific guidance and adjusted a few specific practices, both due to the pandemic and also due to the gradebook changeover to Synergy (with some practice changes already in the works before the pandemic.)

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/grading/report-cards-secondary.aspx (this still has last year's guidance linked instead of this year's)

The two main differences this year are 
- when a teacher enters an assignment as "missing" or Z, it will calculate as a 0 instead of 50%. This is a stronger signal that something is missing and needs to be done.
- missing assignments may remain a 0 if there have been 3 [i]attempts[/i] to notify parents of the missing work. Two-way contact is not required to be able to give a zero this year (because parents were just ignoring teacher attempts to contact last year.)

Exactly which assignments can end up as 0 instead of 50% for missing is determined at the teacher level. There should be consistency for course-alike teams on assignments in the 90% category. Communication to parents is still expected (including via Canvas and Parentvue notifications) so parents should be aware of which assignments might end up as 0% if not completed by the deadline.

For my particular team, we agreed to use 50% minimum rule for the 1st unit as students returned to school and faced reality of no phones and more accountability. Then for the 2nd unit we gave 0s for missing assignments that were supposed to be done during class time and there were also in class make-up days. The end of unit quiz is 50% minimum. If a student skipped class (unexcused absence) they don't get to take it on another day (actual grading policy says it would be a 0). Final project will be in class in 2 parts, and if not completed will be a 0. The students being affected by this return to former procedures are ones who have a lot of absences without trying to make-up work, and students who somehow manage to not do work when they are in class. Overall, I'm finding that most students are doing a better job this year keeping up with assignments and turning things in on time, which then means they are better prepared in class to learn the next thing.[/quote]

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